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Science Fiction and Narrative Form by Professor David Roberts (Monash University, Australia)
SciFier: $42.87Establishing science fiction as its own distinct and increasingly important narrative form, this book explores how the genre challenges pervasive perceptions of society as they appear in the... -
The Digital Child by Daniel Dervin
RRP: $53.59SciFier: $52.78Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external... -
The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic Jordi Cami 9780691208442
RRP: $29.48SciFier: $25.42How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through... -
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Magical Children: The Invisible Boy Sally Gardner 9781444011616 [USED COPY]
RRP: $8.03SciFier: $2.69As the little alien explains to Sam, being invisible can be a big help. A very funny adventure story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.When his parents are lost in... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949761
SciFier: $64.11How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for... -
Magical Children: The Invisible Boy by Sally Gardner
RRP: $8.03SciFier: $7.34As the little alien explains to Sam, being invisible can be a big help. A very funny adventure story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.When his parents are lost in... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition Andrew Osmond (Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK) 9781839024429
RRP: $26.79SciFier: $23.5720 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic Jordi Cami 9780691264325
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $20.26How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through... -
The British Superhero Chris Murray 9781496820266
RRP: $36.17SciFier: $30.23Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there... -
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian: All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli Darl Larsen 9781538103654
SciFier: $71.68As a follow-up to their first true feature film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comic troupe next decided to tackle a "shadow" version of the Christ story. Shot in the Middle East and produced... -
The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino 9780141189680
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $12.73Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated... -
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Magical Children: The Boy with the Lightning Feet Sally Gardner 9781444011654 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37SciFier: $2.93When Timmy Twinkle kicks a ball - it's magic! A funny and charming story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.Timmy Twinkle gets bullied at school and hasn't any... -
Silent Film Sound Rick Altman 9780231116633
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $41.79Because silent cinema is widely perceived as having been exactly that-silent-no one has fully examined how souns was used to accompany the films of this era. Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects... -
Noah as Antihero: Darren Aronofsky s Cinematic Deluge Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch 9780367878122
SciFier: $58.60This collection of essays by biblical scholars is the first book-length treatment of the 2014 film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film has proved to be of great interest to scholars working... -
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $17.07The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good... -
Magical Children: The Boy with the Lightning Feet by Sally Gardner
RRP: $9.37SciFier: $7.34When Timmy Twinkle kicks a ball - it's magic! A funny and charming story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series.Timmy Twinkle gets bullied at school and hasn't any... -
Ambitions Val Owen 9781068644566
SciFier: $16.74The elders on the island Flint grew up on are the last to remember the damage done to their community by the English decades before. Flint has grown up withe the weight of their desire for revenge on... -
Behooved M. Stevenson 9781399738521
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.68The fate of the kingdom is riding on them.Bianca knows her duty comes before her heart. So when the threat of war looms, she agrees to marry the neighbouring kingdom's heir. But not all royal... -
Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire Genevieve Abravanel (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Franklin & Marshall College) 9780190272418
SciFier: $53.10How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by... -
100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition Andrew Osmond (Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK) 9781839024412
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $78.7420 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
Atlas at War by Michael Vassallo
SciFier: $62.43Atlas at War! collects fifty hard-hitting stories from Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel Comics and published more war titles than anyone in the industry between the years 1951 and 1960... -
Musashi (New Edition) by Eiji Yoshikawa
RRP: $50.91SciFier: $36.03Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really... -
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives Polo B. Moji (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 9780367637538
RRP: $62.97SciFier: $57.43This book approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces.The book adopts a transdisciplinary... -
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian: All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli Darl Larsen 9781538134443
SciFier: $38.85As a follow-up to their first true feature film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comic troupe next decided to tackle a "shadow" version of the Christ story. Shot in the Middle East and produced... -
Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film Chris D. 9781845110864
SciFier: $40.44"Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation cinema from the early 1950s through to the late... -
El gran mago del mundo (The Great Magician of the World) Fran Nuo 9788415241751
SciFier: $21.11Winner at the 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. A book overflowing with poetry and color, helping us to discover that we live within the most amazing magic show we could ever imagine.Whether it... -
World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture Louise D'Arcens (Professor of English, Macquarie University) 9780198825944
RRP: $104.52SciFier: $101.71World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come... -
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV: The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen Loren-Paul Caplin (Columbia University; NYU Tisch; Hofstra University, USA) 9780367256869
SciFier: $44.66Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern... -
Thinking in Film: The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila Mieke Bal 9781472526915
SciFier: $138.68What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish... -
World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus Antonio Sison (Catholic Theological Union, USA) 9781138921887
SciFier: $66.73Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema,... -
The Listeners Jordan Tannahill 9780008445430
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.29Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel' Stylist A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and... -
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I, Coriander Sally Gardner 9781444015676 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $3.75A stunning story set in seventeenth-century London and the fairy world, from a CARNEGIE MEDAL and COSTA-prizewinning author.The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London... -
I, Coriander Sally Gardner 9781444015676
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $9.00A stunning story set in seventeenth-century London and the fairy world, from a CARNEGIE MEDAL and COSTA-prizewinning author.The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London... -
Lois McMaster Bujold Edward James 9780252080852
SciFier: $41.93Readers have awarded Lois McMaster Bujold four Hugo Awards for Best Novel, a number matched only by Robert Heinlein. Her Vorkosigan series redefined space opera with its emotional depth and... -
This Poison Heart: From the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead Kalynn Bayron 9781526632791
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $7.38_______________ 'Kalynn Bayron does more than re-write a fairy-tale ... She breaks it apart and rebuilds it into a wholly original and captivating story where girls finally decide for themselves... -
Tinder by Sally Gardner
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $14.95Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He... -
Lois McMaster Bujold Edward James 9780252039324
RRP: $121.94SciFier: $96.82Readers have awarded Lois McMaster Bujold four Hugo Awards for Best Novel, a number matched only by Robert Heinlein. Her Vorkosigan series redefined space opera with its emotional depth and... -
Thinking in Film: The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila Mieke Bal 9781472532749
SciFier: $42.87What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish... -
Something New Under the Sun Alexandra Kleeman 9780008339128
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.07'An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure' Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies 'Magnificent and stunning' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird... -
The Next Shiny Object Hudson Talbott 9780593856772
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $17.34The author of the award-winning A Walk in the Words shows readers the joy and challenges of navigating the world as a kid with ADHD. It sure is hard to focus when your curiosity is boundless! That...